Allow for generically extracting unannotated str

As raised by Alexander Plavin, you may want to obtain a the underlying
string of an AnnotatedString in non-String cases. However, there's no
public API for doing so. Instead of just implementing this functionality
for the String type, we can make it more generic.

Co-authored-by: Jameson Nash <[email protected]>

Author: tecosaur

base/strings/annotated.jl

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ A string with metadata, in the form of annotated regions.
 
 More specifically, this is a simple wrapper around any other
 [`AbstractString`](@ref) that allows for regions of the wrapped string to be
-annotated with labeled values.
+annotated with labelled values. The underlying string can be extracted by
+calling a string constructor with the `AnnotatedString` as the argument.
 
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@@ -125,7 +126,9 @@ AnnotatedString(s::AnnotatedString, annots::Vector{Tuple{UnitRange{Int}, Pair{Sy
 AnnotatedChar(c::AnnotatedChar, annots::Vector{Pair{Symbol, Any}}) =
     AnnotatedChar(c.char, vcat(c.annotations, annots))
 
-String(s::AnnotatedString{String}) = s.string # To avoid pointless overhead
+# To allow for generically de-annotating a string.
+(::Type{T})(s::Base.AnnotatedString) where {T <: AbstractString} = T(s.string)
+String(s::AnnotatedString{String}) = s.string # To avoid pointless overhead (and avoid ambiguity)
 
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